{"brief_version":"base2026.evidence-brief.v2","question":"AI citation tracking","normalized_question":"ai citation tracking","status":"full","corpus_version":"public-d1:2175:1574:2026-08-22","ranking_version":"d1-fts5-bm25-and-v2","generated_at":"2026-08-31T03:48:53.431Z","coverage":{"matched_records":12,"selected_sources":3,"distinct_creators":2,"published_date_min":"2025-11-28","published_date_max":"2026-07-14"},"findings":[{"claim":"How to Influence AI Citations: 90% of companies waste time on directories that don't matter. Find the 1-5 that AI actually cites for YOUR industry, get on those listicles, comment on the top Reddit threads, and create c…","evidence_excerpt":"If you want your company or brand to be recommended by large language models, you need to be tracking the pages and websites they cite. In other words, you need to be simulating the kinds of prompts that your ideal customer might be typing into these large language models. And then pay attention to what pages online the large language models look at before they recommend you or your competitors. This is really the entire game right now. If those pages cited by the large lang…","creator_handle":"@tjrobertson52","published_date":"2025-11-28","base2026_url":"https://base2026.dev/sources/tiktok-video-7577857865130495246","original_source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@tjrobertson52/video/7577857865130495246","evidence_start_seconds":null,"evidence_end_seconds":null,"topics":["AI citation tracking","directories / AI recommendations","Discussion threads / AI citations","industry-specific AI visibility","listicles / AI citations","Multi-platform repurposing","owned page citation quality","Replacing cited pages"]},{"claim":"GEO service warning signs: SEO integration, citation tracking, and content-focused work","evidence_excerpt":"he prompts people enter in AI are never actually common, which is why I think you need a service to let you track the prompts that you want to track. But why is this so important? When someone enters a prompt into AI, that AI is then immediately going to do what's called a fan out query. It's going to do three to 12 separate searches in a search engine, then gonna look through 1 to 200 potential results, in site maybe a dozen of them. If your brand is recommended more often…","creator_handle":"@tjrobertson52","published_date":"2026-07-14","base2026_url":"https://base2026.dev/sources/tiktok-video-7662526266918112526","original_source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@tjrobertson52/video/7662526266918112526","evidence_start_seconds":null,"evidence_end_seconds":null,"topics":["AI citation tracking","Content-focused GEO","GEO and SEO integration"]},{"claim":"Bots now drive more traffic than humans for the first time. AI agents...","evidence_excerpt":"For the first time in internet history, bots have officially passed human traffic. Their customers are now searching with AI agents, and your business probably isn't showing up where it matters. Here's how foreign this concept actually is. At Google Io, Google just didn't announce AI overviews. They announced something called Information Agent. A that searches the web on your customer's behalf 24 7, tracking changes, comparing options, surfacing answers without the human eve…","creator_handle":"@neilpatel","published_date":"2026-06-30","base2026_url":"https://base2026.dev/sources/tiktok-video-7657250892437097742","original_source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@neilpatel/video/7657250892437097742","evidence_start_seconds":null,"evidence_end_seconds":null,"topics":["Local SEO operations and Google Business Profile maintenance"]}],"repeated_signals":[],"limits":["This brief covers the current Base2026 public corpus, not the whole SEO industry."]}